The Register's Editorial: More hot water for law academy

Police chiefs upset new officers now can't train close to home

1:10 AM,
Oct. 27, 2013

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The Register?s Editorial Board

The Iowa Law Enforcement Academy trains peace officers, jailers and dispatchers from across the state. The school has been in the spotlight for hiring, and retaining, employees who made inappropriate sexual or violent remarks to female recruits and co-workers.

Before that controversy was laid to rest, a new controversy bubbled to the surface, with the academy's governing council telling law enforcement agencies that they cannot send their new officers to other state-approved police training academies.

What the academy council is not telling those law enforcement agencies is that ...